Piagetsky

I broke in.  I exist, but I have no results.  U of T, committee 4.  

Yeah I’m really upset to be honest. I get it takes time, absolutely but man, this is torture. I‘ve never been so desperate to receive information that I’m expecting will upset me before ?

YES! I just got an email from playstation asking if I enjoyed my purchase of Skyrim. I HAVEN'T PLAYED IT, Playstation, I've been a bit busy refreshing my email ?.

The hive mind sleuthing that goes on in a group like this is priceless.
Also!  I *HATE* email notifications around times like this.  I wish I had an filter that said "no notifications except from sshrc@gimmeresultsplease.ca.

The hive mind sleuthing that goes on in a group like this is priceless.
Also!  I *HATE* email notifications around times like this.  I wish I had an filter that said "no notifications except from sshrc@gimmeresultsplease.ca.

Good points. Also some people who got log in info and didn't receive one might not feel like sharing (and fair enough, I'll prob be too busy moping to share my rejection straight away, haha).

Me right now.

HTTP/1.1 200 OK Server: Microsoft-IIS/8.5 Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2020 16:47:42 GMT Connection: close This is what I get even trying to connect to extranet site. Maybe site is down. I have not yet got my login either. Going to need to do something that I can see through to finish, aka, not writing my proposal. Sigh.
 

Oh gosh, that sucks. Been through two of those myself as my wife works in healthcare. Here's hoping your positive and negative results are in the right places. ?
Haven't received link, but signed in using the "Forgot Password" trick and my e-mail as username. No results documents posted once I got in.

U of T, last name C, committee 4, no email as of 9:09 pm Eastern.  Maybe somebody went home.

THIS is the internet version of snail mail

Ok but BRIGHTSIDE: we don’t have to wait for snail mail. ?

I think this is a moment where you're kind to yourself and you don't work. Especially during a pandemic, I've realized that deadlines are flexible.

Let's reframe - if we were not selected, we did not lose. We simply were not selected. It is like figure skating or any other judged event. There are political, social, cultural and personal biases that enter into a reading of our applications. We are all winners in the sense that you are in a PhD program and you will not have lost your work, you/I were simply read by someone who had other priorities. Peptalk to myself. ?
 

That's an interesting idea - for some reason I thought programs wouldn't be upfront about not considering international students. I'll give it a try, thanks!

Hello there!
This is a fairly common dilemma. I am unsure of what the best "etiquette" here is, but what I can tell you is that POIs are not surprised that you are interested in other professors from their university or other programs with similar research labs. From my experience, they often advise to just list both on your application - that's why programs let you list up to three POIs.
 
That said, unless you are quite interested in being co-supervised by them, I would say just contact them separately to gauge their interest in your experience, how it matches with theirs, etc. And maybe this can evolve into a discussion of shared interests or a Skype call as someone on this thread previously mentioned. 
My personal opinion is that it is expected for POIs with similar research interests to be contacted by the same students. I think things get a bit odd when you express interest in wildly different areas and you don't have some justification for it (you can be perceived as unfocused).
I might be wrong about this, so maybe someone else can chime in  
All the best!

I was 38 when I graduated with my master's and I'll be 44 when I'm done with the PhD, but it's worth it. One thing you don't want to be is old and in debt because there's really no way to recover from that.  Best of luck in whatever you decide!

Started undergrad at 33, master's at 38, starting a PhD program at 40.  Professors I inteviewed with said my life/work experiences were what caught their attention.  

Started undergrad at 33, master's at 38, starting a PhD program at 40.  Professors I inteviewed with said my life/work experiences were what caught their attention.  

Started undergrad at 33, master's at 38, starting a PhD program at 40.  Professors I inteviewed with said my life/work experiences were what caught their attention.  

I was 38 when I graduated with my master's and I'll be 44 when I'm done with the PhD, but it's worth it. One thing you don't want to be is old and in debt because there's really no way to recover from that.  Best of luck in whatever you decide!

I was 38 when I graduated with my master's and I'll be 44 when I'm done with the PhD, but it's worth it. One thing you don't want to be is old and in debt because there's really no way to recover from that.  Best of luck in whatever you decide!

I was 38 when I graduated with my master's and I'll be 44 when I'm done with the PhD, but it's worth it. One thing you don't want to be is old and in debt because there's really no way to recover from that.  Best of luck in whatever you decide!

I'd bail.  I know the lost time is awful and it seems like a huge step back, but 7 years out of undergrad is not that old at all. This is the education you will have for the rest of your life, so if multiple people are telling you you're not getting what you're paying for (!), I'd listen to them. 

Dev psych never gets any love even though we’re objectively the best speciality. My undergrad mentor always told me people think they’re clinical until they find out about dev psych haha 
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